Blog 5

Working poor, it is amazing exactly how many individuals actually fit into this category. To me working poor are individuals who work and are still unable to make ends meet or are barely able to scrap by. Some individuals are working multiple jobs just to survive and yet often times their basic needs as human beings are not being met. Adding to their troubles is a government that says you are providing an income for your family there for any government assistance will be limited or denied. What a choice to make, work hard and still not be able to make ends meet because according to state agencies you make to much or quit working so that you do qualify for medical coverage for your kids and assistance with food. To often children born into poor families and disadvantaged communities are being denied health care, well balanced meals and proper childcare. A single mother working to raise her children may hold down two or three part time jobs because it is cheaper for her employer to hire part-time employees and there forgo the expense of having to pay that full-time employee benefits. If individuals continue to disregard the public responsibility for children born into poor families and disadvantages communities how are to change this viscous of the working poor. Children born to parents who are considered working poor are at a disadvantage right from the start, quality childcare and education are not always available in their communities which means these vital tools that are needed to help children later excel in college, or any kind of continuing education are missing. If we were to take a look and exam a school from a disadvantaged community along with a school from a non-disadvantaged community would the quality of education be the same? Would the quality of resources available to both schools be the same? Shouldn't’t they be? Should a child be denied the rights of other children because of the neighborhood he lives in and the amount of money his parents make?